open the door…

I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

Douglas Adams
English humorist & science fiction novelist (1952 – 2001)

I blame a very busy start to the year at work for my belated re-enty to the blogsphere. I fully intended keeping my New Year’s Resolution to resume posting (with re-newed enthusiasm) but…better late than never.

Thanks to Tomaz Lasic – for tagging me for the 7 things you don’t know about me meme – and Kerrie Smith – for her untiring commitment to helping others – see the EdNA Blogging Corner – for prompting me to ‘have another go’.

So here I am – perhaps not as enthused as I hoped to be but definitely committed – I’ve replied to the forum at the Blogging Corner, submitted a post for the Blogging Carnival, subscribed via rss and added my details to the wiki. That just leaves 7 things you didn’t know about me.

1. I enjoy cross-stitching – but don’t have much time now. I completed this sampler 20 years ago!
2. The most enjoyable – and challenging – years of my teaching career were spent working with PEAC [Primary Extension and Academic Challenge] students.
3. My first serious foray into web based publication was EAGER [DETWA's new and improved version] but the original still exists [It was designed to fit onto a floppy disc - remember them? - so it could be sent to schools with dodgy 'net connections.] This was early in 2000.
4. On February 1st this year I will have been married for 34 years – to the same man!
5. I have just decided that because I am now going to blog regularly I will have to become an edublogs supporter [I can't stand the ads!]
6. I have a genuine fear of hairy spiders. Redbacks are OK – they’re not hairy!
7. I quite enjoy ignoring rules – so I’m not going to name 7 people to continue this meme [See John Connell's blog post on the exponential]